Frank Lautenberg

What might we do to prevent-- what would you recommend that we do to prevent intimidation of whistleblowers and blocking their points of views?

I don't want to put too much pressure on your learning curve in this short period of time, but that's a question I'll be asking you repeatedly until we get the answer I want.

We have lots of brilliant people doing things, but we don't have enough.

The thing--I think that picture of them standing on that wing will go down in history as an icon of what safety is about.

I want to make sure that those procedures set forward in that report, are followed and that we do actively pursue and make certain that no one is subject to retaliation or is ever inhibited from raising a safety question with fear of…

I'd rather end his career than have my wife and my children on that airplane, I can tell you that.

I think that there ought to be some finite limit that says, 'Look, if you can't get through it in a couple of turns, you're not fit for this kind of post.'

People are anxious to go places, they still crowd airplanes, there are still huge delays and so forth, but the overriding concern is safety.

Federal receipts at the U.S. Treasury have declined nearly 19 percent for the first 7 months of fiscal year 2009.

We do not want to leave the impression or the reality in place that the Government of the United States will, will be able to and will have the capacity to exercise judgments over the day-to-day operations of these businesses.

The financial crisis that we're seeing was, in my view, due in significant part to the poor management of these companies

Senator Nelson mentioned something about the Government owning shares in these companies and its, I think it has to happen.

You've taken on a formidable task and, so far, I think that the score in the ball game is going your way, but we are quite a distance from the ninth inning.

Where does the start begin? Is it in Treasury or is it IRS or the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?

Should executive compensation be tied to the long term health of the company?

It took us a long time to learn how to do the job properly.

I wrote a law that is referred to in its simplest form as the right to know.

Scientific integrity will be the backbone of her leadership of the agency.

I am pleased to say, to note, that the Obama administration has already reversed some of the anti-science and anti-transparency policies of the past.

Science was under attack, under constant attack in the previous Administration, which did its best to ignore, censor and suppress science.

I would ask you a question about Superfund.

150,000 of these household bullies have been denied gun permits.

Do you think that we would be safer if there was regulatory jurisdiction on unlicensed dealers?

I want to commend the FBI for the recent sting operation that resulted in the arrests of four men plotting to bomb synagogues in New York City.

I wrote the law to prohibit spousal abusers from getting Federal gun permits.